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May 20th, 2007

Spam Check II

I know I still can’t top Ryan with this but I thought I’d post it anyway: how many spams are you receiving each day?

Discounting my Gmail account, which is a dumping ground for websites I don’t trust, I get 120-150 per day. There was a definite uptick about 3 or 4 months ago; things suddenly exploded and I was getting more.

Just silly.

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COD May 20, 2007, 6:44 pm

I forward all my mail accounts to Gmail, then forward my Gmail inbox back to a double secret IMAP account. Gmail has 12322 spams right now, which should represent the last 30 days, so that is about 410 spams per day. If we add the spam that actually makes it through to the inbox, I guess that would increase it to about 415 per day.

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